That's interesting that people now are so amazed with the fact that to start a product you don't really need "angels and VCs lined up". Personally I am coming from East-european shareware background. Back in '90s and '00s nobody would even think about outside capital - people would just start their product and then either grow it into a viable company or bury it, if it doesn't work. I have a feeling that now people of the same age can't even imaging starting anything without financing. Sad...